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black patch before and beyond it at costa, slightly bent outwards 
below vein 7, then very minutely waved ; a terminal series of black 
striz interrupted by pale points at the veins. Hind wing hyaline, 
the veins blackish, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown 
narrowing to tornus; cilia pale brown at base, white at tips. 
Hab, Assam, Khasis, 3 2 type. Hap. 28-34 millim. 
6378. Stictoptera eceicei. 
Scictoptera ekeikei, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 235 (1906). 
-&. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous; palpi 
black-brown ; pectus ochreous white; abdomen fuscous, the ventral 
surface ochreous white. Fore wing black-brown suffused with 
silvery grey and with some reddish brown in parts; subbasal line 
represented by traces of two dark strie from costa; traces of a 
waved antemedial line; claviform represented by a black point at 
extremity, the orbicular slightly defined by black on outer side ; 
reniform faintly defined by some black points; traces of a blackish 
medial line, oblique from costa to discal fold, then erect ; postmedial 
Fig. 52.— Stictoptera eceicei, S. 4. 
line hardly traceable, bent outwards below costa and incurved below 
vein 4; traces of a whitish subterminal line with a more prominent 
spot at tornus; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing 
fuscous black, the interspaces in, below, and beyond the cell hyaline, 
the inner area with hyaline streaks above and below vein 1; cilia 
with a fine white line at base. 
Hab. Br. N. Guivus, Ekeikei, type T in Coll. B.-Baker, Mt. Kebea 
(Pratt),1 3 wp. 36 millim. 
Secr. LV. (Stictoptera.) Fore wing broader and more triangular. 
A. Fore wing with the antemedial line very strongly 
dentate throughout ....32)...12. 0s euccedssdedueteeneseeeree trajiciens. 
B. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards 
above inner margin to near the medial line. 
a, Fore wing with the tornal area concolorous. 
a‘, Hind wing with the hyaline area not extending to 
far beyond the cell, the terminal half dark...... signifera. 
b'. Hind wing with the hyaline area extending to far 
beyond the cell, the terminal third dark......... subobliqua, 
}, Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown or 
black, the apex, tornal area, and a wedge-shaped 
patch from inner margin before postmedial line 
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